is a Japanese

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, better known by his

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and is currently working for the Japanese

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(DDT).

Professional wrestling career

Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wrestling (2002–present)

Sakai made his

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debut for

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(DDT) under his real name, Yoshihiro Sakai at a Non-Fix event on June 20, 2002 in a losing effort to Hero!. Sakai was a part of Team Midbreath alongside

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(under the name Mr. Strawberry) and

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who went under the nickname of O.K. Revolution, and together they were the inaugural

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after defeating

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and Shuji Ishikawa in a tournament final which took place at the I Shall Return event on July 20, 2003. In 2004, while working under the name Muscle Sakai, he was the main protagonist and producer of the DDT sub-brand which parodied the style of , a promotion created earlier that year and focused on the

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aspect of wrestling. Muscle went on to produce 26 shows between 2004 and 2012, a special event with Ken Ohka in 2015, a "Musclemania" event in 2019 and it was then revived as in 2020. In 2012, he assumed a masked character by the name of Super Sasadango Machine (a parody of

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's Super Strong Machine). During his tenure with DDT, he worked alongside various wrestlers and personalities such as Ken Ohka, Ladybeard, LiLiCo and

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with whom he won the

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on August 20. During their reign,

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replaced Ladybeard in several title defenses such as the one that occurred at God Bless DDT on November 23, 2017 where thet fought

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, Sanshiro Takagi,

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and

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in a ten-man tag team match to retain the titles. On September 27, 2015, at Who's Gonna Top?, Sasadango teamed up with fellow #OhkaEmpire stable members Ken Ohka and

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to defeat Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao) for the

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. At

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, Sakai teamed up with

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, Makoto Oishi,

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and

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to battle Danshoku Dino, Asuka,

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, Mizuki and Trans-Am★Hiroshi in a losing effort for the vacant KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship.

Championships and accomplishments

* Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro-Wrestling **

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(

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) **

Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship The is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight in its DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. Open to anyone, regardless of gender or DDT employment status, the championship is defended "24/7", as ...

( 10 times) **

Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Championship The was a six-person tag team title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team, today known as DDT Pro-Wrestling. The title, established in 2003, was named after the Jiyūgaoka neighborhood in Meguro. It has since been ...

( 1 time) – with

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and Yusuke Inokuma **

(

) – with

and Kenso ** KO-D 10-Man/8-Man Championship (

) – with

, LiLiCo, Ken Ohka and Ladybeard (1) and

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and

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(1) ** Sea of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Mr. Strawberry and O.K. Revolution * Union Pro-Wrestling **

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( 1 time)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakai, Yoshihiro 1977 births Living people Japanese male professional wrestlers 20th-century professional wrestlers 21st-century professional wrestlers DDT Extreme Champions Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions Jiyūgaoka 6-Person Tag Team Champions KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions KO-D 8-Man/10-Man Tag Team Champions Sea of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Champions World Aipoke Champions